Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition.

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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

- William Osler

Compassion

"To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study medicine only from books is not to go to sea at all."

- William Osler

Learning

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."

- William Osler

Leadership

"It is much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has."

- William Osler

Insight

"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."

- William Osler

Education

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"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Focus

"The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus."

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Focus

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

Focus

"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles. Let this Tuesday be a day of focus."

Focus

"If you can’t do something, then don’t. Focus on what you can."

- Shiroe

Focus